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1. GETTING STARTED.....................................1 Introduction .......................................1 Getting Started ....................................1 Backup Your Disks ..................................2 Installation .......................................2 Install on Floppy Disk .............................3 Install on Hard Disk ...............................5 Partial Installation ...............................6 DesqView Users .....................................6 Windows Users ......................................6 About Word Fugue....................................7 2. CUSTOMISING ........................................11 Options Configurable From Inside Word Fugue ........11 Margins ..........................................12 Format Options ...................................13 Ruler Line .......................................15 Global File Options ..............................16 Display Options ..................................19 Autosave .........................................22 Dictionary Names .................................23 Colors ...........................................24 Save Setup .......................................25 Installation of Key Strokes ........................25 3. STARTING WORD FUGUE ................................27 Creating a New File ................................27 Loading an Existing File ...........................27 Saving a File ......................................28 Save and Exit ...................................28 Edit a New File .................................28 Save and Edit New File ..........................28 Save and Continue Editing .......................28 Save As Different File and Continue Edit ........28 Abandon Changes ....................................29 Loading Multiple Files .............................29 Searching For a File ...............................29 Applying Macros At Startup .........................29 Run Time Options ...................................30 Use Black and White /B ......................30 Use BIOS for Screen IO /G ....................30 Use BIOS but Use Software Cursor /Q ..........30 Use High Intensity Background /b0 ..........31 Use Blinking Background /b1 ..........31 4. ENTERING TEXT ......................................33 Word Wrap ..........................................33 Paragraph Markers ...............................34 Justification ......................................34 Enhancing Text .....................................35 Entering A Special Character .......................36 Special European Characters ........................36 Altering Text ......................................36 5. COMMAND KEYS .......................................39 Cursor Movement Keys................................39 Quick Movement Commands ............................39 Text Markers .......................................39 Text Insertion and Deletion ........................39 Search and Replace .................................40 Files ..............................................40 Windows ............................................40 Block Commands .....................................40 Text Formatting ....................................41 Ruler and Margins ..................................41 Spelling ...........................................41 Macros .............................................42 Line Drawing characters ............................42 Calculator .........................................42 Printing a file ....................................42 Mail Merge .........................................44 Index/Table of contents ............................44 Footnotes & EndNotes ...............................44 6. WORKING WITH BLOCKS ................................47 Mark a Block of Text ...............................47 Hide a Block .......................................47 Columns ............................................47 Moving a Block .....................................48 Copying a Block ....................................50 Deleting a Block ...................................51 Undeleting a Block .................................51 Writing to a File ..................................51 Inserting a File ...................................51 Shift Left .........................................52 Shift Right ........................................52 Strip Hi Bits ......................................52 Toggle Case ........................................53 To Upper Case ......................................53 To Lower Case ......................................53 Format Block .......................................53 Sort a Block .......................................54 Export Ascii .......................................54 Set Font for a Block ...............................54 External Pick Buffers ..............................55 7. FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT .........................57 Search .............................................57 Replacing text .....................................58 Find And Apply Macro ...............................60 Find Matching >}]) or end ..........................61 8. MANAGING FILES .....................................63 Displaying a Directory of Files ....................63 File Descriptions .................................64 Attaching a Description to a File ...............65 Packing the Description File ....................65 Remembering Recently Edited Files ..................66 Changing the Logged Drive or Default Directory .....66 Opening a File .....................................67 Close A File .......................................67 Save File and Continue .............................68 Save As Different File and Continue Edit ...........68 Include File .......................................68 Expand Include File ................................69 Get Info ...........................................69 Writing A Block to a File ..........................69 Reading a File into the Current File ...............69 Line Terminations ..................................70 9. USING WINDOWS ......................................71 Opening a Window ...................................71 Zoom Window ........................................72 Resize Window ......................................72 Switching Windows ..................................73 Closing A Window ...................................73 Copying From One Window To Another .................73 10. MISCELLANEOUS STUFF ...............................75 Performing a Word Count ............................75 Partial word count ..............................75 Convert a Wordstar file ............................75 Convert Tab Characters To Spaces on Reading ........76 Convert Spaces to Tabs When Writing The File .......76 Outline Processing .................................76 Ruler Lines ........................................77 Columns And Tables ..............................78 Editing a Ruler .................................79 Embedded Ruler Lines ............................80 Stored Rulers ...................................80 Using A Mouse ......................................81 Help System ........................................82 Menu Driven .....................................83 Context Sensitive ...............................83 Shell to Dos .......................................84 Autosave ........................................85 Memory ..........................................85 Drawing Lines & Boxes ..............................86 11. CALCULATOR ........................................89 Using The Pop Up Calculator ........................91 Copying the Last Result Into the Document ..........91 Copying the Equation into the Document .............92 12. CHECKING YOUR SPELLING ............................93 Using a Personal Dictionary ........................93 Using the Spelling checker .........................93 Modifying the Main Dictionary ......................96 Specifying the Main Dictionary .....................97 13. MACROS ............................................99 Recording A Macro ..................................99 Editing A Macro ....................................100 Saving A Macro File ................................101 Playing Back A Macro ...............................101 Activate Macro 1 to 9 ...........................101 Activate Macro ..................................101 Choose Macro From List ..........................102 Replay Macro Many Times .........................103 Find And Apply Macro ............................103 Example Macros ..................................104 Loading A Macro File ...............................104 Load A Macro File ...............................104 Temporarily Load A New Macro File ...............105 .cp8 14. TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................107 Identifying Table of Contents Entries ..............107 Automatic Level Numbering ..........................108 Style of Numbering ..............................108 Types of Numbering ..............................109 Set Start Numbers ...............................109 Space Reserved For Numbers.......................110 Examples ........................................110 Producing a Table of Contents ......................111 15. INDEXING ..........................................113 Specifying Index Entries ...........................113 Generating an Index ................................113 Sample Input and Output ............................114 Index Major Entries ................................114 Index Refer to Entries .............................115 Width of the Index Line ............................116 Tips with Indexes ..................................117 Blank Line Before Entry .........................117 Inserting Dot Commands ..........................117 16. PRINTING & FORMATTING .............................119 Printing a File ....................................119 Editing Printer Sequences ........................121 Printer Format Commands.............................123 Laser Printers and Dot Matrixes .................124 Printable Area ...............................125 On Screen Display of Fonts ......................126 Colour Ribbons .....................................126 Dot Commands .......................................127 Print formatting Dot Commands.....................127 Include File ...................................130 Page Offset ....................................130 Start New Page .................................130 Page Numbers ...................................131 Vertical Print Margins .........................133 Page Length .................................133 Line Height .................................133 Line Width ..................................134 Margins .....................................134 Headings and Footers ...........................135 Print Functions ................................137 Mark Changes in Left Margin ....................137 Selecting Printer Definition Files .................138 Special Printer Definition Files ...................138 Print Preview ...................................138 Quick Link Fax ..................................138 Ascii Print .....................................139 17. MAIL MERGE ........................................141 Variables ..........................................141 Merge Print Dot Commands ...........................141 Merge Printing Conditional Commands ................144 The IF Condition .................................145 Complex Conditions .............................146 The End If .......................................147 The Else Condition ...............................147 Nested Ifs .......................................147 Command Files ....................................148 18. COLUMNS, TABLES & SNAKING COLUMNS .................151 Multiple Columns ...................................151 Activating ......................................151 Defining ........................................151 Tables .............................................152 Activating ......................................152 Defining ........................................152 Snaking Columns of Text ............................153 Start Snaking Columns ...........................153 Set Up an Appropriate Ruler .....................154 End Snaking Columns .............................154 The Column Break ................................154 Changing the width of Characters ................155 On Screen Display ...............................155 Printing Snaking Columns ........................156 19. FOOTNOTES, ENDNOTES & ANNOTATIONS .................157 Footnotes .........................................157 Inserting Footnotes ............................157 Editing Footnotes ..............................158 Deleting Footnotes .............................158 Moving Footnotes ...............................158 Copying Footnotes ..............................158 Changing a Footnote Reference Mark .............158 The Notes File .................................159 The .NSF dot Command ...........................159 Line Height and Character Width .............159 Print Footnotes in Snaking Columns ..........160 Footnote Number Reset .......................161 Footnote Separators .........................161 Background on Footnotes ........................162 Setting the start Number .......................162 Endnotes ..........................................162 The .PE dot Command ............................162 Inserting Endnotes .............................163 Editing Endnotes ...............................163 Deleting Endnotes ..............................163 Moving Endnotes ................................163 Copying Endnotes ...............................163 Changing an Endnote Reference Mark .............164 The Notes File .................................164 The .NSE dot Command ...........................164 Line Height and Character Width .............164 Print Endnotes in Snaking Columns ...........165 Endnote Sorting .............................165 Setting the start Number .......................165 Annotation ........................................165 Inserting an Annotation ........................166 Editing Annotations ............................166 Deleting Annotations ...........................166 Moving Annotations .............................166 Copying Annotations ............................166 The Notes File .................................166 Printing Annotations ...........................167 .pa APPENDICES A. TUTORIAL ...........................................169 Lesson 1: Making a Working disk ....................170 Floppy Disk Users ...............................170 Hard Disk Users .................................172 Configuring Word Fugue for your machine .........172 Lesson 2: Creating a File ..........................173 Lesson 3: Entering Text ............................174 Lesson 4: Saving and Exiting .......................175 Lesson 5: Loading an Existing File .................176 Lesson 6: Moving Around the Screen .................177 Lesson 7: More About Entering Text .................177 Lesson 8: Changing Text ............................178 Lesson 9: More Ways to Change Text .................179 Lesson 10: Changing Margins ........................181 Word Wrapping ...................................181 Justification of Right Margin ...................182 Temporary Left Margin ...........................183 Lesson 11: Copying, Moving, and Deleting Text ......183 Lesson 12: Finding and Replacing ...................184 Lesson 13: Help Screens and Menus ..................185 Lesson 14: Printing ................................186 Print formatting ................................187 Font Selection ...............................188 Dot Commands .................................188 Headers and Footers .......................188 Page Breaks ...............................189 Lesson 15: Windows .................................190 Tutorial Summary ...................................192 B. MISCELLANEOUS UTILITIES ............................195 FI - File Descriptions Utility .....................195 WF_2_4D - Convert FILEINFO To 4DOS Format ..........197 WFLEXMGR - Dictionary Maintenance Program ..........198 ZIP - Shell for PKZIP & PKUNZIP programs ...........200 WFINST - Word Fugue Installation Program ...........201 Installation of Key Strokes .....................201 Changing the Registration Message ...............204 Extracting the Keyboard Table ...................204 CHD - Full Screen Directory Changer ................205 Batch Mode ......................................205 Full Screen Mode ................................206 README - Full Screen File Browser ..................207 C. EXAMPLES & TIPS ....................................209 Changing Page Length and Line Height ...............209 Double Spaced Text .................................210 Selective Printing of Page Numbers .................210 Printing the First Page on Letterhead ..............211 Printing a Standard Business Envelope ..............212 A Typical Master Document for Merge Printing .......212 Merge Printing Envelopes for a Mass Mailing ........213 Merge Printing Sticky Labels Three Across ..........214 Example 1 .......................................214 Example 2 .......................................215 Example 3 .......................................216 Missing Data in Some Records ....................217 Merging and Centering a Variable in a Page .........218 Maths, Formatting and Conditionals in Merging ......218 Advanced Mathematics in Merge Printing .............220 Creating a Lookup Table for Merge Printing .........221 Proof Reading Your Printouts Before Merge Printing .222 Working with Books and Chapters ....................223 The Master Document .............................223 Headings in your Table of Contents ..............224 Headings and Columns in your Index ..............225 D. THE PULL DOWN MENU .................................229 File Commands ......................................229 Edit ...............................................229 Windows ............................................230 Block Commands .....................................230 Search / Replace ...................................230 Go To ..............................................231 Options ............................................231 Miscellaneous ......................................233 Quit ...............................................233 Help ...............................................233 E. WINDOWS & DESQVIEW .................................235 DesqView Users .....................................235 Windows Users ......................................235 F. ASCII Character Set ................................237 G. TROUBLE SHOOTING ...................................239 Questions ..........................................239 Messages ...........................................248